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elementary particles

2 articles tagged with elementary particles.


explained · · 5 min read

How many neutrinos pass through your body every second?

Roughly 100 trillion neutrinos cross your body each second — almost all of them from the Sun. Here is where the number comes from, why you don't notice, and how often one actually interacts with you in a lifetime.

explained · · 4 min read

What are neutrinos made of?

Neutrinos aren't built from anything smaller — they're elementary particles with no known internal structure. Here is what that means, why physicists treat them as point-like, and how a neutrino differs from composite particles like protons and neutrons.